Bhakti movement: a cult of love and devotion that sought to erase the distinction between Hinduism and Islam…
Deadly, Unna? is one year in the life of fourteen year-old Gary ‘Blacky’ Black. Like most boys his age,…
Bhaktic- Hindu groups dedicated to gods/goddesses. Stressed strong emotional bond between devotee and worshipped god. Shiva and Vishnu most widely worshipped…
Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731 in Maryland. He was the first African American mathematician and astronomer. Banneker was a free man who went to schoolhouses. He continued to self-educate himself after school hours through borrowed books and learn how to read from a Bible his mother gave him from London. At 20 years old, he built the first American wooden clock carved from his pocket knife that kept precise time. Then at 60 years old he teamed up with Andrew Ellicott to decide where the White House would be. In 1788, Benjamin made astronomical calculations and accurately predicted the solar eclipse the next year. He wrote letters about opposed slavery and advocated civil rights to future president Thomas Jefferson.…
Vhiknukzark or commonly known as Zark, to those of inferior vocabulary, is a Kobold that lived with his tribe inside the cave system of Srazol Mountains. He was a hunter and defender of his tribe. He would go out and hunt the rich wildlife in the nearby forest, the Whispering Woods. When gnomes came near his tribe he made sure they left with a few arrows in their backs… if they made it out alive that is. Vhiknukzark was happy with his simple life of hunting, sleeping and eating. But that changed in the 10th year of his life.…
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From ancient Greece, India, Pre-modern China to feudal Japan, there is a treasure trove of literature and epics from the ancient times available to us. Each is valued for having contributed to the way society thinks today. These literary masterpieces have shaped our ideas about human life and spiritual growth and have sparked riveting debates about the existence of God and the importance of spirituality. Among these great works of art is the Ramayana, a tale where Dharma, or right-conduct, pervades throughout. Though the Ramayana is set in an era far different from our own, several of the values, events and teachings are still relevant today. Many of the situations that take place in the epic relate to the issues we face in today’s society. In this paper, I will use various mediums to prove the Ramayana’s relevance in our modern world. I will begin by discussing the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta and its relation to my thesis. Then, I will discuss the values of the Ramayana in comparison to the other literary works of India, namely the Mahabharata. I will continue by analyzing the effect and impact of the Ramayana on Asia and Asian religions. I will then briefly discuss the doctrine of Jivatma and Paramatma in relation to the Ramayana and present day society. Following this, I will discuss the value systems present in the Ramayana as well as how they support or oppose the value systems seen in Western and Eastern society today. Next, I will discuss the role of the Bhagavad Gita in explaining and supporting the Ramayana’s value systems, as well as the impact the work has had on society today. Finally, I will close by talking about the notion of Dharma vs. Adharma, and the idea of globalization in comparison to Valmiki’s great epic.…
Benjamin Banneker was born on November ninth in 1731. He was born in Ellicott’s Mill, Maryland to former slave Robert and the daughter of a former English indentured servant Mary Banneky. Because both of his parents were free, he was not subject to slavery. He gained an education when he was younger from his grandmother on his mother’s side. Afterwards, he attended a Quaker school for a while. Even though Banneker was, for the most part, a self-educated student, he was still able to succeed academically on his own.…
The Declaration of Independence, a well-respected document responsible for seceding the United States of America from the oppressive Great Britain, had a false allegation written in it: that all men were created equal and endowed with unalienable rights. The only men who proved to be equal in the eyes of society were the property owning white men, and slaves, after some of them having had helped their American allies achieve freedom, were once again subjugated to the cruel tendencies of their owners. There have been several opinions about its constitutional fairness and Benjamin Banneker—the son of former slaves and a highly intellectual individual—wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson that was designed to poke at his façade of his hypocritical view on what free men were by utilizing several religious appeals, an array of comparative allusions, and repetition of respectful notions.…
Many people say that Hinduism is the product of melding different religions and cultural influences. Around the 5th or 6th centuries, two religions emerged in India that had heavy influence on the formation of Hinduism (Kinnard, 2013). Those two religions were Jainism and Buddhism, and are of course not new, but formulated newer ideas through Hinduism (Kinnard, 2013). Like Hinduism, there are many other Eastern Religions that worship more than one god. However, it is believed by many that Hinduism has the most gods that are worshiped. There are over 300 million Hindu…
Bhakti - the yoga of love and devotion. One of the main practices is e constant repetition of one of God's names. (The 4 Yogas) (H)…
In the article, South Park and the Transformation of Meaning, written by Marcus Schulzke, Schulzke analyses “The F Word” episode of the satirical, and controversial show. In his analysis, Schulzke focuses on language, and the different interpretations that can be placed on the word “fag," emphasized throughout this episode of the show. The show focuses on a group of bikers who are desperate for attention and parade around town loudly on their Harley’s Davidson motorcycles (Schulzke, 2012). However, the townspeople, in particular a group of kids, find this behavior simply obnoxious and make it their mission to get rid of these bikers (Schulzke, 2012). They proceed to call the bikers “fags” throughout, which is the premise for the entire episode,…
Bhakthi in the Water is a story about growth and learning. Each character is shaped by the experiences that they have and the people they encounter. This supports the unit EU that states that identity is a construct of hybridity by exposing how these characters are defined by the interactions and challenges that we faced. For this reason, I believe that the story should remain in the course…
Being a Hindu, growing up in a modern society, I have got this wonderful opportunity to research Hinduism in contemporary world. In this essay, I have explored Hinduism not only by juxtaposing it with modern Hinduism, but also with ancient religious practices. Modernity is not simply the western world, or connecting to contemporary and rejecting the old. Modernity, as David Smith says is theorization of modern world and according to modernity self is autonomous, and God is dead. This feature of modernity contradicts present day world. For us, yes we are autonomous, but God is still alive within us, somewhere within our heart, in the air, in water and everywhere. We are not autonomous, we are controlled by the government and our future depends…
When Raju finds it impossible to escape, he decides to make a clean breast of everything about himself. He then tells his chief disciple Velan the whole truth about himself, his relationship with Rosie, his crime and the punishment it earned for him. But the outcome of this confession was contrary to his expectations. Instead of condemning him for having trifled with the faith of simple, credulous villagers and sparing him the trouble of carrying on with the fast as Raju has expected, his confession strengthened Velan’s faith in his saintliness. It rather gave the simple-hearted peasant a sense of satisfaction arising out of the thought that of all the inhabitants of Mangala he alone was granted the privilege of being the confident of the Swami as is evinced by his reaction to Raju’s confession: ‘Why all this, Swami? It is very kind of you to address, at such length, your humble servant’ (R. K. Naraan, p. 208)13. He goes on to say, ‘And I’ll never speak a word of what I have heard to any one’, and thumping his chest in a dramatic gesture to emphasize the assurance that he will never divulge this secret, he adds, ‘it has gone down there, and there it will remain’ (R. K. Naraan, p. 209)14. Raju, who had not yet dreamt of any such result of his clean confession, is stunned; at the same time, he is filled…